We are again opening up the artistic gates of the public space in Prishtina. From 20th to 23rd of July we welcome you with artistic works that are based on your participation. This year the theme of audience participation and the co-creation has been the focus of our during the whole year. This Festival is assembling the work of Teatri ODA in the frame of IN SITU – European network for artistic creation in public space, where together with our partners we have developed and promoted artistic works that are based in audience engagement. In this spirit during April this year Teatri ODA hosted 7 artists and producers from Europe, who jointly have developed 8 artistic ideas that are based in audience engagement. Teatrit ODA’s artist presented in IN SITU this year is Agnes Nokshiqi with the project “I dance you” that you can experience during the Festival. To give other dimensions of audience engagement is a special experience participation in “Mission Roosevelt” in wheelchair having the city as a spectator of this symbolic that belongs to all of us. In “Dedriving code ” you can learn how to behave in Schengen zone after the visa liberalisation for Kosovo citizens. Under the coaching of French instructors from x/TNT you will experience artistically this course in the best possible way. “Free world street” can be discovered in Prishtina with the hand of actors starting from Zahir Pajaziti square and revealing a world of fictional neighbors that have common their approach on human liberty and freedom.
Our intention was to open the pulic space to the public and artists of Kosovo. In the opening of the Festival we will present an artistic parade, a collective creation with inhabitants of Keçekolla, Kodra e Trimave and Kodra e Diellit. Moments, emotions and memories of these inhabitants have created “WE”, our joint creation that we will celebrate together in the opening of the Festival.
I hope you enjoy the Festival during these four inspirative and creative days, while we remain committed to continue working by creating and presenting qualitative art work in years to come.
Florent Mehmeti, Drejtor Artistik, HAPU – Festivali i Artit në Hapësirë Publike.
IN SITU PLATFORM 2014 – 2017 & ACT 2016 – 2020
The European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public Space
IN SITU brings together a group of programmers who are passionate about new forms of art and public space. They have been working together since 2003 to develop joint European projects.
The expertise and activities of IN SITU covers scouting and promotion of artists, organisation of project laboratories and incubators, co-productions and promotion of emerging creations, organisation of conferences and seminars, etc.
To date, IN SITU has supported over 180 European artists. It gathers 26 partners from 17 countries from as many practical and aesthetic backgrounds which all contribute something vital to the network. Whether members come from a sprawling metropolis or a rural area, whether they are seeking to rehabilitate industrial wasteland or redesign landscapes, the goal is always to serve artists working with, in and for public space.
IN SITU is now working across two complementary projects:
IN SITU PLATFORM is one of the first platform to have been selected by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme, it aims to highlighting and promoting emerging artists who are working outside conventional venues and contributing to the transformation of our territories
IN SITU ACT, a large scale cooperation project gathering 20 partners mostly from Europe will be funded for 4 years after its official launch in November 2016 until the end of 2020. It ambitions to be the European tool for the structuration of artistic creation in public space.
Emerging art for emergingspaces
Art Context Territory
www.in-situ.info
